Personal hotspot missing in iOS 14

I’ve got the same issue. I originally updated to iOS 14 and had the problem. Then I downgraded to iOS 13.7 to get it working again. When 14.0.1 got released I contacted apple before updating and they mentioned this issue was fixed in 14.0.1.

I can report it is not. I’m waiting on apple support for a fix.

I had the same problem on my iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro on both iPadOS 14.0 and 14.0.1.

The simple solution was to take out the SIM, wait a few seconds, insert SIM back in, a few seconds more until the network settings were downloaded from the network and that’s it. Personal hotspot is back.

Set up

1. From the Home screen, tap Settings > General > About.
2. Tap Name to change the name of your iPhone's personal hotspot.
3. Tap About > General > Settings to return to the main list of settings.
4. Tap Personal Hotspot. If you don't see Personal Hotspot, tap Cellular and you will see it.
5. Tap the toggle switch to turn on Allow Others to Join.
6. Tap Wi-Fi Password to change the Wi-Fi Password.
7. The following functions are not available:

• • Creating an Allowed Devices list.
  • Changing the security type.
  • Changing the maximum number of connections (5)

Turn on / off

1. From the Home screen, tap Settings.
2. Tap Personal Hotspot. If you don't see Personal Hotspot, tap Cellular and you will see it.
3. Tap the Allow Others to Join switch ON or OFF.
4. Remain on this screen while you connect other devices to the Personal Hotspot.

Hi, I had the same problem, also by using below instructions you can correct and active it:

go Cellular > Cellular Data Network> Find “Personal HOTSPOT” down of the page> Tap on “APN” > Type the name of your ISP name > Tap on “Cellular” in top of the page at left.

Congratulations, the issue has been fixed now! and HOTSPOT menu has been created.

OMG I just found a solution on my iPhone 11 on Australia's Telstra network. For anyone else with the issue:

After spending days on support to both Telstra and Apple, i tried the below:

-Removing/Replacing SIM card.

-Trying another Telstra SIM/Service of a friend in the same phone.

-A full recovery mode wipe of the phone to factory defaults.

-Network setting resets.

-APN UN and PW entry and subsequent reset to defaults APN only of telstra.internet which is the same on my friends phone which works on iOS 14.0.1.

-Trying the SIM card in my old iPhone 6 (where the hotspot works).

None of these worked.

Then I looked at the APN setting of my iPhone 6, just for the sake and I spotted it was set to use telstra.wap.

If I set it to telstra.internet the hotspot worked still.

Back on my iPhone 11, if it set its APN to telstra.wap it also works!!!!! YAYAYAYAY!!!!

Note that if it resets back to telstra.internet again it doesn't work, so its something I may need to keep an eye on going forward....

In reply, I found that after this change (and waiting 15 minutes) I could actually swap back to telstra.internet and the hotpot looked to work, but the hotspot wouldn't give out an IP address to use the internet for clients. Using telstra.wap everything works.

I have tried all of the option listed, restored the phone, network reset, sim card, called Telstra etc etc. I have even tried my sim card in another i phone 11 pro with IOS 14.01 and nothing has fixed hotspot, I also can not send or receive any MMS messages even with MMS on and roaming on..... Any other ideas on how to fix this problem... it is a major issue.

Had the same issue on the public release of IOS 14. Reset (network settings, complete factory reset), removing VPN, removing sim card etc did not help. I'm with Visible on Verizon Network with an iPhone SE 2020 (2nd gen).

Only solution was to connect the iPhone to Itunes (on Windows 10 in my case). Once I connected a message "carrier settings updated" appeared on my iTunes on Windows. And then the hotspot setting was available again and is working now! Very odd

this worked for me. it’s annoying but you have to reset your network settings.. which isn’t awful but just watch this video its so simple & actually worked for me. personal hotspot is back on my iphone😅 https://youtu.be/OA8l_Rt1kWI

I am facing the same problem, but already solved by set APN name, user name and password (ask your operator or googling if you dont know). You can go to menu Setting - Mobile Data - Mobile Data Network - Personal Hotspot section.

I use iphone 11 pro max after update to ios 14.0.1 hotspot is gone...but after i uninstall VPN hotspot is back and work fine

I found this video on youtube https://youtu.be/98RRhz4p5e0

The first solution solve my missing personal hotspot.

Thanks, I have got personal hot spot back but still no send of MMS messages.

Same. still can’t send mms though.

Same